Wonder ​Boys 5 csillagozás

I passed ten blissful minutes without a thought in my head.

77. oldal

„Sara, honey,” I said, „I'm struck.” I gave my arm a gentle tug, trying to free it. „You're lying on my arm.”
She didn't move; she only opened her eyes, dry once again, and gave me a very hard stare.
„I guess you're going to have to chew it off, then,” she said.

43. oldal

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

48. oldal

The overcoat was a trademark of his. It was an impermeable thrift-shop special with a plaid flannel lining and wide lapels, and it looked as though it had been trying for many years to keep the rain off the stooped shoulders of a long series of hard cases, drifters, and ordinary bums. It emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.

47. oldal

Every writer has an ideal reader, I thought, and and it was just my good luck that mine wanted to sleep with me.

40. oldal

„That's a big trunk,” […] „It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly.”
„That's just what they used to say in the ads.”

71. oldal

Her ankles were wobbling in her tall black pumps, and I saw that it could not be an easy thing to be a drunken transvestite.

55. oldal

Our friendship had itself, after twenty years, come to resemble one of the towns in a Van Zorn story: a structure erected, all unknowingly, on a very thin membrane of reality, beneath which lay an enormous slumbering Thing with one yellow eye already half open and peering right up at us.

5. oldal

„Okay, now, old doctor. Okay, old puppy dog.”
He knelt to pet Doctor Dee, pressing his forehead against the dog's tormented brow, murmuring secret editorial endearments.

37. oldal

I searched my feelings, an activity never far removed from looking for a dead rat in a spidery crawl space under the house.

157. oldal